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  • 3/25/2025
Blaming your predecessor? It's as American as apple pie.
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00:00We're working hard. I think harder than many previous administrations, maybe almost all of them.
00:06We have brought more cases against China for violating trade rules than the previous administration had done in two terms.
00:14In my first four years as president, we increased funding for veterans more than the previous administration did in eight years.
00:21Everybody knows that I have tougher ethics rules than any previous president.
00:30The previous administration imposed crushing fines and other penalties on HRAs.
00:42The previous administration bypassed the states to place over 265 million acres.
00:49That's a lot of land. Million acres.
00:53Under the previous administration, so much of our land was closed to development.
00:58Over 525 detainees were released from Guantanamo under, not my administration, under the previous administration.
01:06We're actually drilling more on public lands than in the previous administration.
01:10And the previous president was an oil man.
01:12That, by the way, is in contrast to the prescription drug bill that was passed that cost hundreds of billions of dollars by the previous administration and previous Congress.
01:25The whole world thought that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
01:29It wasn't just my administration. It was the previous administration.
01:32Previous presidents have used the same constitutional authority I have.
01:35Some of it was not pushed through under the previous administration.
01:38Everybody that works there was appointed by a previous Republican administration.
01:41Five million jobs, five times as many per month as were created in the previous administration.
01:48I have no reason to believe that the previous administration, the lawyers in it who worked closely with Congress, did not fulfill their obligation.

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